Thompson must have sold more than a million copies, surely.
The only book I have figures for is WILD TOWN, which sold
238,987 in the first 13 months of publication (SAVAGE ART
P413). I can't believe that was his best seller, but even if
it was, he wrote over 30 novels.
Al
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
> Jim Thompson had a very succinct and
> rustic writing style, short and
> straight-from-the-shoulder. No story he ever wrote
was
> as poorly plotted or thought out as The Davinci
Code,
> and yet he never sold a million copies of anything
in
> his life time. I doubt that all the book he
wrote,
> collectively sold a million copies in his life
time.
> But by comparison to Dan Brown, Jim Thompson was
on
> par with Tolstoy.
>
> Patrick King
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